I am going to try and give you as much information tonight as I can onBLUEJACKET . I am happy that you could make it tonight . This is goingto be the first of a month long lectures on Our Great Men . BLUEJACKET , the Shawnee name appeared more than once in the ShawneeNation . MARMADUKE VAN SWEARINGEN, most think was not the orginalBLUEJACKET. The name started out as two words and evloved into a surname afterMARMADUKE was captured by the SHAWNEE NATION . Historians have notedthat Bluejacket was a white captive and recived wide acceptance sincethe publication of ALLEN W. ECKERTS book "THE FRONTIERSMAN" . Bluejacket's life is based on family stories and traditions from Kansasin 1877 . Bluejacket was the recongnized chief of the Mequachake division of theShawnee in 1772 , while Marmaduke was but a youth at the time of hiscapture in 1778. A Shawnee named Blue Jacket is listed among John Owens early accounts ofour history . As early as 1756 Bluejacket's name appearing along withBen Dickerson, and cousin Blue Shadow . Whom was also called the Earl OfHell . Along with the Rev David Jones who visited Blue Jackets town in1772 .When Marmaduke VanSwearingen was captured during the 1770's , he wasadopted and given the name of Blue Jacket . Perhaps he was to replacethe original Blue Jacket . But Blue Jacket's family may have given himthe same name , which was done at that time . Blue Jacket was the second in command with Little Turttle ( when readingabout Little Turttle I find mentions of Bluejacket also ) ,during thered victories at Harmar 's Defeat and St. Clairs defeat . You can findwrittings of them both in many of the books written about the fall ofFallen Timbers . Ky. Blue Jackets first wife was Clearwater , daughter of Deperon Baby andhis Shawnee wife . His children included JAMES BLUEJACKET b around1790. BlueJacket had a second wife . Her name was PEGGY MOORE , a whitedaughter of James Moore who was adopted by the Shawnee. Their childrenwere JOSEPH who became the sub-chief under Tecumseh in the war of 1812.Mary Jane Bluejacket , who married a French-Canadian Trader namedLacelle and later lived in Detroit . James Bluejacket whom was thefather of Rev. Charles BlueJacket , and Nancy Bluejacket who marriedJames Stewart and had four children whom amoung them was Joseph Stewart. Listed in the tracts of land in Ohio by the 1817 Treaty of the Miami of Lake Erie was Thucuscu or Jim Bluejacket . I am not sure if this isone of Van's children . The Shawnee whom were on the muster roll of the Ohio Hog Creek andWapakonetta bands shows Henry BlueJacket family of seven and JamesBluejacket family of four . The Shawnees who fought the Seminoles inFlorida were Henry, George and Jim Bluejacket . Charles Bluejacket was the son of James Bluejacket born on the HuronRiver in Michigan 1816. He attended a mission school near Fort Meigs . James Bluejacket married a Wyandot and lived with her people . The 1843Roll of the Wyandots from Sandusky shows his family consisting of 3children. Rev. Charles Bluejacket married Pa-we-see in 1833 , amoungtheir children was Robert born in 1840 , he was shot to death byVilliam Fish in 1858 in Johnson County , Kansas . Charles married again in 1843 to Julie Ann Daugherty member of theLouis P Daugherty family . From this marriage came Sally 1844 mJonathan Gore, David , b 1846, Price b 1854, Willis b 1860, Julia Ann b1863 and Richard b 1866 . There is much written on the family of Charles Bluejacket which can beretrived from RICHARD PANGBURNS book INDIAN BY BLOOD VOL1. Among the Shawnee who settled on the lands of the Cherokee Nation by1869 was , Charles, Louisa , Price, Willis, Silas, Henry , Richard M ,David, Eliza , Rosella, Katherine, Sally Martin , Joseph , Emma ,Sally,(F.E.Bailey's divorced widow ) . All family members are listed inJAIFR , vol lV, #2, pp 100-111 . Twenty -four members of the Bluejacketfamily are listed among the Shawnee on the 1880 Cherrokee Nation Census. . ..And last but not forgoten is Dennis W. Bluejacket , he was among theShawnee who fought for America during WWII . He was killed in Europe. I hope this lightens your search for BlueJackets family . The followingbooks may help . JAIFR, Journal of American Indian Family Research HARVEY , Henry Harvey , History of the Shawnee Indians from 1681 - 1854,E Morgan & Sons , Cincinnati ,1855

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